Created by three outdoor lovers from Boulder, Colorado, these shoes are both comfortable and extremely wearable no matter what you're doing. And while wearers of these little gems sometimes get a hard time, you can't argue with success. Or comfort.

I am so glad the inventors of the Jolly Rancher candies, Bill and Dorothy Harmsen were not successful in creating ice cream, because if they had been, we may never have had the pleasure of looking forward to opening a Jolly Rancher candy.

Created by a Grand Junction native, Ryan Patterson was still in high school when he came up with the idea to translate sign language into the spoken word through these gloves. Ryan created these in 2002 and is now working for NASA.